PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING

摘要

The eighty-eighth annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) was held Thursday, 22 March, through Sunday, 25 March 2007 at the Sheraton Colonial Hotel, Wakefield, Massachusetts, at the invitation of the Massachusetts Audubon Society (Mass Audubon), and sponsored by the Houghton Mifflin Company and the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Wayne Peterson, Director of Mass Audubon's Important Bird Areas Program, chaired the Local Committee, which also included Taber Allison, Shawn Carey, Sandy Cofran, William Davis, Scott Edwards, Ellen Garcia, John Kricher, Carolyn Marsh, Betty Petersen, Robert Stymeist, Jeremiah Trimble, and Susie Vancura. On Saturday, 24 March, the WOS met jointly with Mass Audubon's Annual Birder's Meeting. The WOS Council met from 1300 to 1800 hrs on Thursday, 22 March, in the Franklin Room of the Sheraton Colonial Hotel. That evening there was an "ice-breaker" reception for the conferees and guests.